The Labor enquirer., 1887-01-01

oven political ooouon1io(g 1bolng det
bsfrsd ftpm TIE itee exposition Of soY
cialist doctzinss.> The pgpsss point out
that any l-dlnpossd eemHisusry Of POI
lics can arbitrarily aErsst men who have
no relations With gocialism, and they
assert that virtually Herr Won Puttkar
msr is trying to establish : political in-
ouis;tion with an index -expurHstoris.
The Frankfort Reituna says that !
number Of Socialists, including Herr
Ssbor. member Of the reicbstag. have
been warned to leave the district ~
cluded in the state Of siege by Tuesday.
LONDON, Dec. 26.-The Pesther Lloyd
saws that the csar's fed 81 Nihilists j
excessive. and that he ID suspicious Of
everybody with whom he comes in con-
tact. including even his own wife: and
children.
BRussEIs. Dec. 25.-The Socialists Of
Brussels to-dav opened q cooperative
provision and recreation house, and
many members Of the party gathered to
celebrate the event. The Marselllaise
was sung and violent speeches were
made, but further than this there was
no disorder.
MILWAUKEE,. Dec. 23.-Paul Grottkau.
the eloquent Anarchist and editor Of
tbe . Arbeiter Zeitung, has been SEN
fenced BY Sloan to thirty davs' hard
labor in the house Of correction f,r con-
tempt Of court. l
A scheme is ON foot in the east TO
form COLONY of veterans Of the late
war, under the name OF the Veteran
Commune. Two hundred and fifty
square miles of land will be purchased
somewhere in the west. Each one will
hold his land in severaltv but the COM
munitv will be bound for the relief Of
unfortunate comrades who are members
in good standing.
Obey 3. Owens, receiving teller of the
Third National bank of st. LOUIS sem
bezzled" 100000 from that bank and a
mistake was made and he was sentenced
for five wears. He served half time and
then the president pardoned hin. Had
he been a poor man who mad stolen
sack Of -four ~ keep his family from
sta rvation the president would not have
considered any pardon necessary.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 23.-After the
frat Of the year Knights of Labor are to
hav 70 weekly paper. published by 'au-
thofity of the General Assembly, under
the direction of general officers, at Phil
adelphia.
1t may be that these vast labor unions
may ia to pieces of their own weight.
or oe rent assunder by internal d,ssen-
sions. But let no man of greed, who
wants more work than the money he
pays is worth, fatter himself that the
breaking up of this or that organization
Is the end Of the controversy; that an
unreasonable strike" voices the real
spirit of this movement, or that its fail
ure exhausts its energies. Not SO;
others will take their place; and again
discourse bv the Rev,
DR.. Haygoo1, of Georgia.
There are several hundred thousand
tramps in Germany. A eharitably in
clined theologian established a work
mans colony some time ago, where
tramps who were honest fellows were
glad to come ahd work. The scheme
succeeded beyond expectations, and rs
a result the German government has
taken the matter in hand and proposes to
formulate plan bv which the surplus
population can be employed proftably.
Indianapolis, Indiana, is now all
square" in the printing businesss, the
German Tribune being the last non
union Office to come in. after hard fight
by the Central Labor union.
The miners are paid 80 cents for min
ing ton of coal, for which the coal
of robbers exact $3.50. TO
what purpose are our penitentiaries
The trial of Doyle, Hamilton and
other Knights of Labor. charged with
train. .wrecking at Wyandotte. during
the Southwest strike, is in progress at
Kansas City. So far nothing important
has been shown, and there is no case
against the accused but the prosecution
promises something startling in few
days, when it is proba1 1le that the con-
spiracy of the detectives will be intro
duced.
The revolt against d. A. 40, in New
York, is assuming large and seri rus pro.
PORTIONS The high-handed rule of the
autocrats of the "Home club" was too
much for the honest men who have
been taught that the order is democratic
10 its government. District 40 will not
be able to put sixty-one votes into the
paw Of Tom Mcclure At another Cen
eral Assembly. The machinists Of that
district will have a National Trades Dis
trlct charter to-day (January'l } or they
will leave the order. The Brooklyn
lacals stand upon slmllY ground.
At last reports another big strike was
in progress on the street railways in San
Francisco, and all attempts to run cars
Of the Sutter and Geary street lines had
been abandoned. On Monday last there